I did the exact same thing through college. But my rates didn't go up around holidays - they went down - no one was around, anyhow.
My favorite story was my inevitable phone call at about 11pm night before my CS460 final. I was cramming for it, as usual, and wasn't even halfway done. I got a call from a guy about 35 miles away who demanded that I come get a CD out of a drive that his son had removed from his computer. Here's the conversation :
me : Sorry, not tonight. After my final in the morning. him : You just HAVE to. It's not my CD, and it needs to go back in the morning to work. me : Not tonight, really. I can explain how over the phone, but I don't have the 1.5 hours to come do it. I have to study. him : You HAVE to. I'll pay ANYthing. I'm desperate! me : Really. I have to study. You couldn't afford it. I'll just explain it... him : I'll give you $300 cash. It's all I have in my wallet. I wasn't supposed to bring this CD home!! me : Be there in 20 minutes. Have the drive ready.
So, I got there, he handed me the cash and the drive at his door, I asked him for a paperclip, took out the CD with the release hole, handed him the CD, the bent paperclip, and the drive.
It's getting old seeing companies sue for things like this.
Mod me down as a troll if you like, but what do YOU do when you go to coke.com and find out it's not really a site for Coca Cola?
Do you piss and moan, lose interest, tear your hair out, swear off the drink, throw away your Coka Cola memorabilia and scream "FUCK!" 80 times at your dog?
No, you go to Google or Yahoo or somewhere and FIND it. The ONLY time this feels even remotely legitimate is when competing companies have similar names. If I go to Coke.com and find Pepsi ads everywhere, I may well get interested and switch to Pepsi. But if I go there and find information on Coal refining, aside from maybe learning something and wasting 2.5 seconds out of my day, I'll just go FIND it. What a waste of our tax dollars.
If you have it, you own it. Roght? If they missed the bandwagon or didn't think to register the name, then too bad. Quit whining and stop wasting our time, Visa.
What the hell? How do you get from "I knew a guy" to "It's very rare..."? That's your evidence? Phhhht.
Go back to school.
I bet half the guys in prison for drug sales were "set up" and "just gave the guy something and he asked me to hold his money". In the US, we call that a - now bear with me, here - a S A L E.
And I think that you're a little off base when you claim that "drug users go to jail longer than rapists, murderers, and burglarers?" It's a common misconception that drug DEALERS do. But they have a lot of press surrounding drug busts because it's good for the shitloads of money the US spends every year to rid this country of the crimes that are tied in with drugs and drug sales - y'know - the murder, rape, and burglary you alluded to. No, I'm not talking about selling a dime bag to your buddy. I'm talking about dealing meth or crack or other more hard-core drugs. And yes, some things that drug dealers do are heinous. Selling drugs to kids is heinous to me.
And don't lecture me on Burroughs. Give ya a quick example on "simple economics", here. I have a nice truck. My neighbor needs cash to pay his mortgage. So, he taps me in the face a few times with an axe and takes the truck to Mexico and sells it. Y'know - the old "where there is profit to be made, someone will step up to the plate." That automatically means that anyone following simple economic principles is excused from their crimes? I love it!
Attorney : "Sorry, yer Honor. My client DID brutally shoot 13 people from afar with a sniper rifle, but he was doing it for MONEY."
Judge : "Oh. Well, that's just simple economics! Didn't anyone here read Burroughs? Case disMISSED!"
No, this was in California. Some drug dealers' attorneys were fighting to get their sentences revoked because they lost cars, homes, money, AND had jail time. The attorneys said, "Pick one or the other."
As far as the other comments above about me being an ignorant shithead who thinks summary execution is a good thing, (oh, and I'm a troll) go fuck yourselves. I didn't say anything about summary execution. I said nothing about anything other than the fact that criminals who deal drugs and drive drunk and commit other stupid, heinous crimes, should have more happen to them than a few years in prison, which they weasel out of anyhow. I think having that drug-dealer-fuck's wife pay by having to drive a 15 year old Civic instead of the brand new Caddy they bought with drug money is another thing to help stop this stupid shit. If you think I'm a shithead for thinking that IN THESE PARTICULAR CASES, THIS ACTION IS APPROPRIATE IN MY EYES, then I guess...well...I'm a shithead. If you think I'm a proponent of summary execution of people with out of state plates because they have too mcuh cash, well, you're right there, too. Fuck 'em. One behind the ear, and leave 'em for the rats. All of 'em.
Yeah, I call bullshit on that one, at least a bit. While I don't feel that the current laws are perfect (are they ever?), I think that it's a hell of a deterrent to tell friends, "yeah, I got caught with three nickel-bags, and they took my f*cking CAR, dude!" And, while being proven innocent SHOULD get your car back, I think it's a great additional deterrent. I think there was a big deal about this a couple of years ago, when their were some criminals crying that they had their stuff taken AND got jail time, which was tantamount to being tried twice for the same crime or something...
In this case, it was simply retarded for them to confiscate anything, but in cases like drug offenses or DUIs, I'm all for it.
If the data is in a public server, then it's not "hacking".
Agreed, but that doesn't mean it's 'legal', either, does it? I'm not defending those silly legalities in the least. I think it is and should be forever legal if you don't have to "hack" in. But read the warnings of Sharescan, for instance. The definitions are loose enough in most places.
It's a moot point in this instance, anyhow, as this was public and advertised.
The very virst MDK allowed that, too, on every shot - there was a little video window that let you see the trajectory from all the launchers - rockets, sniper bullets, and grenade launchers.
Gotta admit, the cable sounds suspect. Any cheap splitters in your line? I recently had similar problems, blamed AT&T for the constant disconnects, and generally pissed and moaned. Then it occurred to me that my wife's tv was in the same room as the modem. We replaced the cheap-ass-splitterfrom-Walmart with a good one from the local electronics store, and it's been beautiful surfing ever since. No disconnects or latency in a month.
of the egregious hamminess of some of ST on the perception that TV (or SF) wasn't
And, to follow up, I'd like to PO that, though IANAL, AFAIK, and IAASTF, IMHO (or IMNSHO), I have noticed a lot of ridiculous (R) acronyms being thrown around (TA) like they're PPBFWPJFF (Ping pong balls filled with paint just-for-fun).
My question is, then, do you agree? DYTTETYANALTPUTMATD? (Do you think that even though you are not a lawyer that people use too many acronyms these days?) SABTLT? (Should Acronyms be treated like Tribbles?)
Sorry, this just struck me as weird. 30 sentences, and I counted 14 uses of the word "said". Is this bad journalism? Or simply repetetive, dry and boring?
"It is totally, entirely, and completely the fault of poor security at the film distributor."
Complete and total BULLSHIT. Tell me this is a troll, please.
I had an insurance company try to screw me at some point for some damaged items. They said the same sort of thing.
I support and use several P2P programs, but please. What you're saying is, "Hey, it wasn't locked up, so I stole it. It's cool." Or , "Of course I shot him. But it's ok. I had a gun and he didn't."
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Sorta changes your idea of an "Oh! face", huh?
Sweet. That's the first thing I thought... Wait, they didn't make a 50 Mhz P-1, did they?
My favorite story was my inevitable phone call at about 11pm night before my CS460 final. I was cramming for it, as usual, and wasn't even halfway done. I got a call from a guy about 35 miles away who demanded that I come get a CD out of a drive that his son had removed from his computer. Here's the conversation :
me : Sorry, not tonight. After my final in the morning.
him : You just HAVE to. It's not my CD, and it needs to go back in the morning to work.
me : Not tonight, really. I can explain how over the phone, but I don't have the 1.5 hours to come do it. I have to study.
him : You HAVE to. I'll pay ANYthing. I'm desperate!
me : Really. I have to study. You couldn't afford it. I'll just explain it...
him : I'll give you $300 cash. It's all I have in my wallet. I wasn't supposed to bring this CD home!!
me : Be there in 20 minutes. Have the drive ready.
So, I got there, he handed me the cash and the drive at his door, I asked him for a paperclip, took out the CD with the release hole, handed him the CD, the bent paperclip, and the drive.
I got a B on the test.
Mod me down as a troll if you like, but what do YOU do when you go to coke.com and find out it's not really a site for Coca Cola?
Do you piss and moan, lose interest, tear your hair out, swear off the drink, throw away your Coka Cola memorabilia and scream "FUCK!" 80 times at your dog?
No, you go to Google or Yahoo or somewhere and FIND it. The ONLY time this feels even remotely legitimate is when competing companies have similar names. If I go to Coke.com and find Pepsi ads everywhere, I may well get interested and switch to Pepsi. But if I go there and find information on Coal refining, aside from maybe learning something and wasting 2.5 seconds out of my day, I'll just go FIND it. What a waste of our tax dollars.
If you have it, you own it. Roght? If they missed the bandwagon or didn't think to register the name, then too bad. Quit whining and stop wasting our time, Visa.
You're French, aren't you?
Go back to school.
I bet half the guys in prison for drug sales were "set up" and "just gave the guy something and he asked me to hold his money". In the US, we call that a - now bear with me, here - a S A L E.
And I think that you're a little off base when you claim that "drug users go to jail longer than rapists, murderers, and burglarers?" It's a common misconception that drug DEALERS do. But they have a lot of press surrounding drug busts because it's good for the shitloads of money the US spends every year to rid this country of the crimes that are tied in with drugs and drug sales - y'know - the murder, rape, and burglary you alluded to. No, I'm not talking about selling a dime bag to your buddy. I'm talking about dealing meth or crack or other more hard-core drugs. And yes, some things that drug dealers do are heinous. Selling drugs to kids is heinous to me.
And don't lecture me on Burroughs. Give ya a quick example on "simple economics", here. I have a nice truck. My neighbor needs cash to pay his mortgage. So, he taps me in the face a few times with an axe and takes the truck to Mexico and sells it. Y'know - the old "where there is profit to be made, someone will step up to the plate." That automatically means that anyone following simple economic principles is excused from their crimes? I love it!
Attorney : "Sorry, yer Honor. My client DID brutally shoot 13 people from afar with a sniper rifle, but he was doing it for MONEY."
Judge : "Oh. Well, that's just simple economics! Didn't anyone here read Burroughs? Case disMISSED!"
As far as the other comments above about me being an ignorant shithead who thinks summary execution is a good thing, (oh, and I'm a troll) go fuck yourselves. I didn't say anything about summary execution. I said nothing about anything other than the fact that criminals who deal drugs and drive drunk and commit other stupid, heinous crimes, should have more happen to them than a few years in prison, which they weasel out of anyhow. I think having that drug-dealer-fuck's wife pay by having to drive a 15 year old Civic instead of the brand new Caddy they bought with drug money is another thing to help stop this stupid shit. If you think I'm a shithead for thinking that IN THESE PARTICULAR CASES, THIS ACTION IS APPROPRIATE IN MY EYES, then I guess...well...I'm a shithead. If you think I'm a proponent of summary execution of people with out of state plates because they have too mcuh cash, well, you're right there, too. Fuck 'em. One behind the ear, and leave 'em for the rats. All of 'em.
In this case, it was simply retarded for them to confiscate anything, but in cases like drug offenses or DUIs, I'm all for it.
If you wanted to join the People's Front of Judea, you'd have to REALLY hate Microsoft...
Always with the MS stories someone has to throw in a sexual reference...
Sheesh.
Agreed, but that doesn't mean it's 'legal', either, does it? I'm not defending those silly legalities in the least. I think it is and should be forever legal if you don't have to "hack" in. But read the warnings of Sharescan, for instance. The definitions are loose enough in most places.
It's a moot point in this instance, anyhow, as this was public and advertised.
Just blabbing.
The very virst MDK allowed that, too, on every shot - there was a little video window that let you see the trajectory from all the launchers - rockets, sniper bullets, and grenade launchers.
Check it out.
They time William Shatner doing some quick calculations...
And, to follow up, I'd like to PO that, though IANAL, AFAIK, and IAASTF, IMHO (or IMNSHO), I have noticed a lot of ridiculous (R) acronyms being thrown around (TA) like they're PPBFWPJFF (Ping pong balls filled with paint just-for-fun).
My question is, then, do you agree? DYTTETYANALTPUTMATD? (Do you think that even though you are not a lawyer that people use too many acronyms these days?) SABTLT? (Should Acronyms be treated like Tribbles?)
I mean, it's just R.
For instance, if I used the word "fuck" as much as they used the word "said", I'd have to say it every other sentence.
Oh.
Sorry, this just struck me as weird. 30 sentences, and I counted 14 uses of the word "said". Is this bad journalism? Or simply repetetive, dry and boring?
Whatever happened to declared, spoke of, pronounced, noted, claimed, admitted, told, pointed out... ??
Complete and total BULLSHIT. Tell me this is a troll, please.
I had an insurance company try to screw me at some point for some damaged items. They said the same sort of thing.
I support and use several P2P programs, but please. What you're saying is, "Hey, it wasn't locked up, so I stole it. It's cool." Or , "Of course I shot him. But it's ok. I had a gun and he didn't."
Uhhh, no. Not that hard at all...really.
Grandpa???
Well, it makes me happy to see that I can cause people to WASTE moderation points. Woo hoo! Mod THIS one down, too, will ya?
Here, /math will see to it that those add up to -72 Offtopic.
I understand 100% about JLo. I'm with you there, brother. :)
But how many other people have asked you what the hell Bill Gates has to do with pr0n?
(Sorry, it just sorta read that way...)
Hmmmm. I like the mental picture, but I don't really think it would float that well...